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  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • No, that's not realistic; I would probably transition to video game development if I wanted to make a career out of game design. I'm happy to keep this a hobby.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • I now have 2 more published games, several expansions to that first game and a few more ready to publish.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • I designed a board game as a personal challenge and posted my notes online along the way. As the game got close to being finished a publisher messaged wanting to help finish and sell the game. Royalties were enough for a couple small family vacations. That experience really helped cement board gaming (and designing) as one of my core hobbies.

  • To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey?

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  • I've tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.

    Never heard of Sharkey.

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  • Yep, that's exactly what is happening; I've seen the same and just kept reminding everyone not to click on ads. Took a while but they actually got it.

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  • I run Pihole on physical Pi's and once configured to my liking has been quite nice. I've even had family compliment that they miss the ad blocking when they leave the home :)

  • what open source messaging app do YOU use?

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  • Ditto though ended up dropping Bluesky

  • What's your favorite assignment you made while in school?

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  • Manual drill using a large dowel, flat bit of wood with a hole for the dowel and string to attach the ends to one end of the dowel with a drill bit in the other end.

    Wind it up and then press down on the bar forcing the dowel to spin. Press hard enough and excess force winds it back up again so you can keep pumping it to drill.

    We did cheat by using a modern drill bit but was fun demonstrating it at my elementary science fair.

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  • One of the boys we fostered over the years: he was ~10 at the time and pretty sure was bipolar or schizophrenic or something as his eyes / face would change suddenly and attitude would become extremely defiant, destructive and sometimes physically violent. Thankfully he never hurt his baby sister we also had. We managed to capture one of these episodes over phone with our social worker and was able to move him to a therapeutic home where he was the only child and able to get the help he needed. Kiddo was a chill, happy boy normally but "evil" is pretty accurate to how we felt during those episodes.

  • How do you catch up being out of the loop in politics and wars?

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  • Alternative to Spotify - Linux client?

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  • +1 for TIDAL Hi-Fi

    I switched to that from the web client today in order to enable their "Max" quality streams and enable keyboard media key support; has worked out great so far.

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    Linux users, what are you doing on your laptop?

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  • For CLI specifically mostly managing my home lab, yt-dlp and updates

  • What do you use for photo/video backups?

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  • No, I physically connect the drive, backup my files, then disconnect and swap out for the off-site drive.

  • What do you use for photo/video backups?

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  • I have 2 external SSDs that I rotate keeping them offline and one offsite.

    I backup weekly though my most used files are synced online so is sufficient for my use case.

    Edit: I use Syncthing to backup photos/videos from phones to my laptop so they're included in the above.

  • How do you kill time at work?

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  • I worked a factory job for several years that had nearly unrestricted internet and the ability to install programs. There's a LOT of options here depending on your technical skill and what you're able to get away with. One of my favs was setting up a remote connection to my home network so I could work on project there without much fuss on the work computers and was easy to just close the connection if needed.

    Also games. I played a lot of games... even designed some with all the time we had.

    Learning web development was my most productive though; I was able to contribute to the company and got promoted to IT which launched my career to where I am now.

  • How do you kill time at work?

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  • This was me. At first I automated some commonly used spreadsheets and then made some simple web tools to help our team which eventually led to getting to their IT department and now I work from home full time as a developer.

  • How do you kill time at work?

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  • Emulators, whether installed locally or played via an online version, are great too - replayed Ocarina of Time over night shift and was awesome for getting through that time

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    What were you doing at 18?

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  • Yeah my kiddos were born when I was 15 and 17. Wife and I dated all of high school and planned to marry anyways.

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    What were you doing at 18?

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  • At 18 I was married with 2 kids. I skipped college to focus on work and providing for my family.

    That was 2002. Since then we've adopted 6 more and are currently fostering 2 that we hope to adopt.